UMass Boston junior Urwah Kanwal, the winner of this year’s John W. Ryan Award, plans to earn an MD/PhD after graduation so that she can help lower health care costs. “I think it’s connected with…, , how and when normal, presumably healthy cells become breast cancer tumor cells and use this knowledge to design better preventive and therapeutic treatment strategies. Also on-campus, Kanwal is an…, About the Ryan Award, The Ryan Award is named for John W. Ryan, the first chancellor of the É«É«µ¼º½ Boston. It is given to the student who has achieved the highest cumulative average for four semesters…
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Graduate School of Nursing student Kathleen Schultz, MS, has been honored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism with the first prize for nursing students in its 2019 Hope Babette Tang…, Related story on UMassMedNow:, Graduate School of Nursing celebrates achievement in pre-Commencement event
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UMass Medical School geriatrics expert Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, interspersed personal reflection with scholarly analysis in a JAMA Internal Medicine editorial on a study that found telephone…
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Associate Professor Robert Fisher (Physics) was part of an international team that recently published a research article in Nature that discovered how light reacts after a unique type of supernova…
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Amir Mitchell, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine in the Program in Systems Biology, has received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General…
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BOSTON, – In August 2019, the five-campus É«É«µ¼º½ system endorsed the 10 principles of the Age-Friendly University , as defined by Age-Friendly University (AFU) Global Network at Dublin…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Ocean Vuong, an assistant professor in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers at the É«É«µ¼º½ Amherst, today was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow in…
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A team of UMass Amherst researchers has received a three-year, $460,000 National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network grant for a project aimed to help better understand the interplay…
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Jenia Tevelev, professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Chile. Tevelev will conduct research and lecture at Universidad …
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In an effort to give back to their community while creating career opportunities in the legal professions, Hispanic members of the New Bedford Police Department have begun a scholarship at UMass Law…
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